diff --git a/scrapy/extensions/feedexport.py b/scrapy/extensions/feedexport.py
index d35551fdd..ce2846eba 100644
--- a/scrapy/extensions/feedexport.py
+++ b/scrapy/extensions/feedexport.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import posixpath
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from datetime import datetime
 import six
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse, unquote
 from ftplib import FTP
 
 from zope.interface import Interface, implementer
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ class FTPFeedStorage(BlockingFeedStorage):
         self.host = u.hostname
         self.port = int(u.port or '21')
         self.username = u.username
-        self.password = u.password
+        self.password = unquote(u.password)
         self.path = u.path
         self.use_active_mode = use_active_mode
 
diff --git a/tests/test_feedexport.py b/tests/test_feedexport.py
index c5063253a..f32ac2a4b 100644
--- a/tests/test_feedexport.py
+++ b/tests/test_feedexport.py
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ import warnings
 from io import BytesIO
 import tempfile
 import shutil
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
+import string
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse, quote
 from six.moves.urllib.request import pathname2url
 
 from zope.interface.verify import verifyObject
@@ -98,6 +99,12 @@ class FTPFeedStorageTest(unittest.TestCase):
         verifyObject(IFeedStorage, st)
         return self._assert_stores(st, path)
 
+    def test_uri_auth_quote(self):
+        # RFC3986: 3.2.1. User Information
+        pw_quoted = quote(string.punctuation, safe='')
+        st = FTPFeedStorage('ftp://foo:%s@example.com/some_path' % pw_quoted)
+        self.assertEqual(st.password, string.punctuation)
+
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _assert_stores(self, storage, path):
         spider = self.get_test_spider()